Sentiment Quotes
367 Sentiment quotes by 284 unique authors
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
— Louisa May Alcott
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They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A…
— Graham Greene
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If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from…
— Jane Austen
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Sting told me if I love somebody I should set them free. I doubt Sting ever loved anyone with wings. If he did he might…
— Erin Morgenstern
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The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about…
— Deepak Chopra
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He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,†Isobel says as…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of…
— Theophile Gautier
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The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is…
— Emilie Autumn
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Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made for relationship, we…
— N. T. Wright
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I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it turned out that…
— Cheryl Strayed
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I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would…
— Charles Dickens
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Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something,…
— Philip K. Dick
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Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.
— Sarah Dessen
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Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga…
— Osamu Tezuka
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I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.
— David Levithan
Who Wrote These Sentiment Quotes
284 authors contributed a total of 367 Sentiment Quotes, led by these top contributors: